Isaac Fernández’s girls prevailed 60-57 with a great Jolene Anderson and finished seventh
Their rival in a Catalan quarterfinal duel will be Spar UNI Girona; Cadí La Seu was sixth and will play against Perfumerías
Barça CBS has recovered its best game at the most important moment and this Saturday they closed the regular phase of the Endesa Women’s League with a hard-fought 60-47 victory against Movistar Estudiantes, from whom they took seventh place.
DATA SHEET
ENDESA FEMALE LEAGUE
BAR
ITS T
LINEUPS
BARÇA CBS, 60
(16+10+11+23): Aridana Pujol, Marta Canella (4), Jolene Anderson (21), Kristina Rakovic (8), Ruth Hamblin (2) –starting five–, Julia Rueda (2), Carolina Guerrero ( 12), Anna Cruz (6), Ainhoa López (3), Viktoria Mircheva (2) and Lucía Navarro.
MOVISTAR STUDENTS, 47
(10+12+15+10): Melisa Gretter (6), Alexandra Mollenhauer (8), María Erauncetamurgil (4), Becky Massey (1), Nadia Fingall (12) –starting five–, Billie Massey (7), Laura Mendez (3), Maria Espin (4), Itsaso Conde (2) and Paula Saravia.
REFEREES
Francisco José Zagra, María Ángeles García and Andrea Alejo. Eliminated for fouls: Ainhoa López.
INCIDENTS
Match corresponding to the 30th and last day of the regular phase of the Endesa Women’s League played at the Juan Carlos Navarro Pavilion (Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Barça).
After a bad run that led him to fall out of the play-off zone, the team led by Isaac Fernández has added four victories in the last five daysthe last three in a row to continue to amaze in a course in which he started with the aim of saving the category and in which he played in the Copa de la Reina and now he will be in the quarterfinals in the fight for the title.
The seventh place for the blaugranas is a Catalan crossover in this penultimate round with the second classified, a Spar UNI Girona who won a Catalan duel on the Cadí La Seu court with 23 points from Marianna Tolo (54-66) to add their 24th victory and surpass Perfumerías Avenida for their best particular ‘basket-average’. The first match will be played next Thursday at Fontajau and the second, on Sunday at the Joan Carles Navarro in Sant Feliu de Llobregat.
With his defeat this Saturday, Cadí La Seu finished sixth with 15 victories (the same as Barça CBS) and will face a bone like Perfumerías Avenida in the quarterfinals. In addition, the regular phase champion Valencia Basket will face Estudiantes and Casademont Zaragoza will also have home court advantage against Lointek Gernika Bizkaia.
Returning to the duel of Sant Feliu, the enormous step forward that Barça CBS has taken in defense in recent weeks and which led him to beat Hozono Global Jairis (58-52) and Kutxabank Araski (55-62) to seal his ticket to the ‘play-offs’ has also been key this Saturday by not allowing the schoolgirls exceed 15 points in any of the four quarters.
Jolene Anderson completed a sensational match
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The blaugranas completed a great first quarter (16-10), although they saw how Movistar Estudiantes recovered and faced the last quarter with a draw on the scoreboard (37-37). There the team led by Isaac Fernández recovered the initiative to end up reigning 60-47 with Jolene Anderson as a great figure.
The American guard marveled scoring 21 points with a sensational series of 4/5 in triples, grabbed nine rebounds, dished out two assists and went to +29 efficiency. She was seconded by Carolina Guerrero with 12 points (2/3 on triples), six rebounds and +16. Between the two of them they accumulated 45 of the 56 valuation credits of the entire team.